Improvement Cycles And AI
DevOps.com, Wednesday, November 1,2023
It's that time of year when pundits start to crank out their predictions for the next twelve months! I've been asked to contribute to a private group (and occasionally, Techstrong Group asks me to contribute to their annual list), so I won't thrill you with my predictions just yet; but I will discuss the cycles and trends that previous predictions have shown.
Back when I was testing physical servers, we thought of throughput bottlenecks in terms of where the problem was. The circle would go disk->memory-> CPU, and in the case of things like NAS, insert network in there somewhere, too. When one bottleneck was resolved, another would crop up. And users will always seem to be pushed to the next bottleneck.
We see similar cycles in DevOps. First, Agile made development faster, and that caused us issues throughout the rest of the process. Then, DevOps helped with the build and a little with the testing and deployment steps, but in the early days it was more standardization than speeding up. And since then, we have been in that cycle.